The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-10-20

dered the freedom of that city And should
have been very glad if l could have obtained
any sort of freedom. [Laughter.]
siTo-day l am rendered the same courtesy
by your citizens and soldiers. Comrades,
and ladies and gentlemen, thanking you for
your kind attentions allow me to bid you
adieu.'
AT the close of the reunion on the 23d, let
tiers of regret were read from Gov. Gordon,
Senator Cullom, Gen. Longstreet, Roscoe
Conkling, Gen. John C. Black and others.
The first two named representatives from
the two sections and comparison of their
letters is of interest. Gov. GORDON writes:
sIt was my desire by my pres
ence to at least express the earnest and fer
vent sympathy l feel with the Heaven in
spired effort there to be made to nanish
from the hearts of brave men the last
vestige of enmity and suspicion, enc
to weld them into common brother
hood a. sacred as truth and as endur-
inu as time. This is an object immeasura-
bly, above the petty partisan aims and ambi-
tions of men, and its accomplishment should
enlist the prayers and efforts of good men
and women in all our country. For myself,
l had rather be an humble instrument in the
hands of Providence to obliterate the dissen-
sion growing out Of our late war, than to oc-
cupy the highest position in the universe"
Senator CULLoM, after regretting his in
ability ssto attend proposed reunion'of ex-
Union and ex-Rebel soldiers" thus continues:
ssSuch reunion as proposed, 'of the Blue
and the Gray may be made of value to the
country, not by yielding any principle fol
which the Union army fought or the Ma
tional Government contended, but by cult
waiting disposition on the part of all Ameri-
can citizens to put away animosities
and eherishing spirit of harmony
and peace between the sections in
the interest of the prosperity of the
people, with malice toward none.
| 1t is pleasant to record the manly answer Of
the stalwart Republican Roscoe CoNKLING
as contrasted with the bitter vindictivenes:
/ characteristic of the campaign utterances oi
such fre-eater and hate-monger as Candi
date Foraker:
'My earnest sympathy and hope go to ano
go with every movement and idea having fol
its real purpose to weld together all sec.
tions and all classes, and 20 make cuI
country throughout all its borders
united, prosperous and great. Coult
wish or act of mine decide, every community
and neighborhood in all the land should be
crowned with the fullness of peace and pro
gress. at the South as at the East, 1.-THE West
or the North. The brave men who faceC
each other in battle can be the bes
teachers and most genuine actors of thi
creed.'
This is the direct and forcible expression o
manly and Christian-like sentiment, tn
sentiment which animated GRANT long befor
failing speech compelled him to use his pen
Gil in declar ring it at Mount McGregor to tn
General his armies captured at Doneison
1t is the just, the polite, and the sensibl
sentiment of the great body of the America
people. 1t is particularly the sentiment c
intelligent soldiers, who desire "a perfect Union
to preserve the integrity of which they perile
their lives. 1t is the sentiment of the younge
generation which profits by strife the bit
terness of which it does not inherit.
But it is not the sentiment of the bin
leading the blind, section-seeking mounte
banks who fancy there is potency in "on
more campaign with the bloody shirt"